From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 06:24:41 -0700 Subject: "Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused" From today's Chronicle of Higher Education and, appropriate to the topic, not behind their paywall: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Fair-Use-Too-Often-Goes-Unused/240033?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_2 The people for whom fair use is perhaps most intended -- educational users -- also tend to inhabit extremely conservative institutions when it comes to legal issues and can get easily dissuaded from exercise of rights by even a very thin chance of legal action. Content providers, on the other hand, are rarely shy about claiming all their rights and more. This piece focuses on "quotation" of visual material (stills from a motion picture, etc.), but the argument has general validity. Jim O'Donnell Arizona State University